MadeForMums Toy Award 2024 Winners: Best building and vehicle toys

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In this guide, we’ll cover top picks across two categories: Best Building Toys and Best Car/Vehicle Toys. From magnetic tiles and robot-building kits to transforming planes and high-speed racing sets, there’s something for every young builder and racer. Dive in to discover the winners chosen by our expert child judges!

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Best building toy
Best car/vehicle toy

Best building toy

Whatever age they are, building toys are always a hit with children. From simple magnetic tiles to more complex brick constructions, a good quality building toy has the ability to encourage problem solving, imagination and logical thinking, as well as help with spatial awareness and fine motor skills. Not to mention the fact they’re great fun too!

Our group of testers, from preschoolers to big kids, put a range of building toys to the test. Along with their parents, they looked at how much fun each toy was, the build possibilities, how easy everything was to store after play and how much value for money each toy offered, to choose their award winners.

Joint Gold: CONNETIX 92 Piece Rainbow Ball Run Pack

CONNETIX 92 Piece Rainbow Ball Run Pack MFM Toy Awards 24

My favourite part is making the balls zoom down and race each other too. I like the bright colours and the magnetic squares are fun the way they snap together. It was a bit hard to put together sometimes but it was still super fun. I will definitely play with it lots and I can’t wait to try and make bigger runs for the balls to go down. Hopefully I can make them really tall and long without falling down!
Child judge Owen, 9 years old

Joint Gold: Plus-Plus Learn to Build Robots

Plus-Plus Learn to Build Robots MFM Toy Awards 24

The robots are funny — I like the way the legs move; some have wheels to make them go. They’re a bit tricky but I love them. I’m making a family of robots and am going to do the bigger robot tomorrow.
Child judge Tess, 6 years old

Silver: Plus-Plus BIG 100pc Cube

Plus-Plus BIG 100pc Cube MFM Toy Awards 2024

When I asked Arlo if he liked the bricks he told us ”Yes – I like building things with Mummy and Daddy. I like making the bees the best! These are my fun bricks, there are so many colours and I want to make all the animals using the bricks.” We can easily spend an hour playing with them, which I think shows he enjoys them as to get a 3 year old to play with anything that long is an achievement!
Jenny, mum of child judge Arlo, 3 years old

Bronze: Tile Town Pet Clinic and Rescue

Tile Town Pet Clinic and Rescue MFM Toy Awards 24

My daughter thoroughly enjoyed playing with the Tile Town Pet Clinic and Rescue, she couldn’t wait to open the box and have me help to put the pieces in the right places to build the design on the instructions. She sat and played happily, changing the build around, using the action tiles. She has wanted to play with it every day since!
Donna, mum of child judge Grace-Rosalie, 3 years old

Editor's Choice: Plus-Plus Learn to Build Colorverse

Plus-Plus Learn to Build Colorverse MFM Toy Awards 2024

Emerson was really excited to play with this toy and I don't think either of us have seen anything like it before, so it really is unique. I like that there is a lot of inspiration provided but you are also free to use your imagination. I think the quality is great and she loves the bright colours and opportunity to create
Stacey, mum to child judge Emerson, 5 years old

Best car/vehicle toy

From cars to planes and buses, a toy vehicle is a classic open-ended toy to spark plenty of imaginative play. Whether it’s a high-speed racing track or simple road play mat, there’s something to appeal to every age.

Our mini testers put these toys through their paces, playing, wheeling, racing and crashing to pick their favourites. While they were mainly concerned about how fast they could wheel their toy cars and vehicles around, their parents looked at play potential, age suitability, quality, how long each toy might hold its appeal and, of course, whether they were really worth the money. Check out the winners below.

Joint Gold: Bluey 3-in-1 Transforming Plane Set

Bluey 3-in-1 Transforming Plane Set MFM Toy Awards 2024

When my 3-year-old son first saw this he said ’Wow!’ and his face lit up. When my 4 year old saw he is shrieked ‘Oh cool, a Bluey plane!’ and hasn’t stopped playing with it since. It has easily become his favourite toy. He loves showing me around the house – he gets very excited to swing the hammock, pull down the bedsheets, and swivel the chairs around.
Jessica, mum of child judges Lincoln, 4 years old and Rhys, 3 years old

Joint Gold: CONNETIX 48 Piece Roads Creative Pack

CONNETIX 48 Piece Roads Creative Pack MFM Toy Awards 2024

Good. Amazing. Super! I love that I can use all of my favourite vehicles on here and create lots of different tracks for them – even with bridges! I am going to play with this every day for the rest of my life.
Child judge Finley, 6 years old

Silver: PAW Patrol Rescue Wheels Chase's Deluxe Power Haulin' Cruiser

I think my daughter has really enjoyed this toy. It's a very attractive toy, having lights and sounds and moveable parts. It's also big enough to withstand a preschooler dropping it, but small enough that she can pick it up and bring it downstairs.
Chloe, mum to child judge Enola, 3 years old

Bronze: Tech Deck Sk8 Crew 2-in-1 Transforming Ultra Sk8 Bus

Tech Deck Sk8 Crew 2-in-1 Transforming Ultra MFM Toy Awards 2024Sk8 Bus

It’s the best toy ever. I love the skater dude, I am glad he is wearing a helmet so he doesn't hurt his head. Can I have more skateboards? I love this mega ramp, he can use that to jump to the roof, grind and then land on the other ramp. The black jump is awesome!
Child judge Dylan, 5 years old

Editor's Choice: T-Racers Mix N Race Range

T-Racers Mix N Race Range MFM Toy Awards 2024

George absolutely loves these cars and took them to bed the first night he had them! He has loved being able to make new combinations, telling me the different colours, and trying to decide which he likes the most. As a parent, I really like these cars as they are really helping with his fine motor skills when he takes them apart and puts them back together.
Laura, mum of child judge George, 4 years old

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Emily Longman WallDigital Content Producer

Emily is the Digital Content Producer at MadeForMums and creates editorial and video content across the brand. She also edits the weekly editorial newsletter, oversees our reviews process and loves creating our craft articles and videos. She specialises predominantly in car seats and pushchairs, and has yet to meet a buggy she couldn’t fold! With a 1st class degree in History, she always researches topics thoroughly to find the best recommendations for parents.